Ten Reasons Nothing Here Runs Out
Merit Grove Bodhisattva closes the chapter with a final list: not the ten treasuries themselves, but the ten reasons the treasuries can never be exhausted — benefiting every living being, a vow-mind that never changes, and, at the very last, simply understanding that every dharma is just like an illusion.
The Ten Reasons Behind the Ten Treasuries
After ten treasuries, each unfolded across several Parts of narrative and doctrine, the chapter closes with a final compression: ten short reasons, stated almost in a single breath, for why none of it ever runs dry. The list ends, fittingly, on the same insight that made ultimate giving possible many Parts ago — that every dharma is just like an illusion.
「佛子！此十種無盡藏，有十種無盡法，令諸菩薩究竟成就無上菩提。何等為十？饒益一切眾生故，以本願善迴向故，一切劫無斷絕故，盡虛空界悉開悟心無限故，迴向有為而不著故，一念境界一切法無盡故，大願心無變異故，善攝取諸陀羅尼故，一切諸佛所護念故，了一切法皆如幻故。是為十種無盡法，能令一切世間所作，悉得究竟無盡大藏。」
"Son of the Buddha! These ten inexhaustible treasuries possess ten inexhaustible dharmas, which cause every bodhisattva to accomplish unsurpassed bodhi to its very completion. What are these ten? Because they benefit every living being; because they skillfully dedicate their own original vow; because they continue without interruption through every kalpa; because their mind that awakens throughout the whole realm of empty space is without any limit; because they dedicate what is conditioned without any attachment to it; because within a single thought's own domain, every dharma is inexhaustible; because their mind of great vow never changes or alters; because they skillfully gather in every dhāraṇī; because they are held in the mindful protection of every buddha; and because they understand that every dharma is just like an illusion. These are the ten inexhaustible dharmas, able to cause everything done throughout the world to attain, in the end, the great treasury that is inexhaustible."
These ten reasons work as a kind of key to everything the chapter has shown: faith is inexhaustible because it is held in the buddhas' own mindful protection, giving is inexhaustible because a vow-mind that never changes keeps offering it, and wisdom is inexhaustible because every dharma is understood as an illusion in the first place — nothing solid there to use up. The chapter that opened with "ten kinds of treasuries every buddha has already taught, will teach, and now teaches" closes by explaining, in one final list, why that teaching itself never needs to end.
Chapter 22 and Fascicle 21 Complete
This closes chapter twenty-two, "The Ten Inexhaustible Treasuries" (十無盡藏品第二十二), and with it fascicle twenty-one of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra — a single chapter occupying an entire fascicle from its first line to its last. Fascicle twenty-two opens the sūtra's twenty-third chapter, "Ascending to the Palace of the Tuṣita Heaven" (昇兜率天宮品第二十三), in Part 174.